Watch Two Teenagers Get Owned By The World's Hottest Chile Pepper

With Sriracha and even Ghost Peppers creeping into the mainstream on restaurant menus, people are becoming more and more adventurous when it comes to spicy foods. But even those who love their meal with a serious kick tremble at the thought of downing the king of the world's hottest peppers—the Carolina Reaper. The fire-engine red peppers are in the Guinness Book of World Records for their heat level, which tops out at 2.2 million Scoville units. For scale, that's about 440 times hotter than a jalapeño.

Luckily you don't have to wonder what it would be like to try to eat one—two teen girls did it for you. Lizzy Wurst and her friend Sabrina (both maintain their own YouTube channels), decided to take on the Carolina Reaper challenge this summer, to hilarious effect. At the start of the video, which begins with the girls all done up for what they're sure will be a super funny, super cute video. They laugh nervously and crunch right into one whole pepper each. What follows is the most pure representation of immediate, wholehearted regret. Their initial giggles take a sharp turn into coughing, spitting, screaming, gagging and drooling.

Their first mistake is improper preparation. Right off the bat, they resort to number one of the things you should never do when you eat spicy foods—chugging water. Everyone knows that milk and other dairy products are the way to go to temper the scorching heat of chile peppers, and H20 only makes it worse.

Sabrina begins sobbing, shaking, trying to relieve the suffocating burn with her inhaler (spoiler: it doesn't work). Lizzy remains much more composed, attempted to mask the feeling with bread and sugar—both of which might have helped if they hadn't chosen such an intense pepper, but the Carolina Reaper shows no mercy.